Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co including both antique and contemporary

including both antique and contemporary decor

to the chickens pecking away on the green next to the train tracks

with light wear and some spotting to the wood on one side

There is a string tied around the nail holding one leg in place

but overall excellent condition

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co including both antique and contemporaryA listed artist, Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866 1958) was a Boston born painter and engraver, who in addition to pursuing his own art worked for Harpers magazine in New York. This drawing was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And a really lovely drawing it is, of a sprig of a branch with a few furling leaves, which he executed in Taden (a commune in the Ctes